[HN Gopher] CRT Manufacturing
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       CRT Manufacturing
        
       Author : throwup238
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2024-01-24 20:13 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (vintagetek.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (vintagetek.org)
        
       | rwmj wrote:
       | This is quite an interesting corporate video about how black and
       | white CRTs were made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yYfTVIzBE
        
       | tadfisher wrote:
       | This is probably apocryphal: early CRTs had their yoke coils
       | wound by hand, which became a lost art as winding machines took
       | over for volume manufacturing.
        
       | Lammy wrote:
       | > 9450 S. W. Barns Rd
       | 
       | Portlandians: Are Barns Rd and Barnes Rd the same thing? Looks
       | like a nice spot if so:
       | https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.50901/-122.77468
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       | That building is now a SFX agency: https://hellohinge.com/ (No
       | relation to the dating app)
       | 
       | Also curious if the TEKsystems employment agency next door took
       | its name from Tektronix.
        
       | xyzzy_plugh wrote:
       | I would buy a new CRT terminal in a heartbeat. It's a shame that
       | there isn't really a market for them, and that this whole segment
       | of technology is gradually being lost to time.
       | 
       | I ended up trashing a few older CRTs that had pretty severe burn-
       | in and bad contrast. As far as I can tell there was no
       | alternative, no way to repair them or obtain new components.
        
         | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
         | In a hundred years, the only ones left will be in museums...
         | there won't be anyone around who remembers using them first-
         | hand.
        
         | p1necone wrote:
         | With the latency + perfect blacks of modern OLED displays you
         | could probably build a "fake" CRT with some purpose built image
         | processing in to fake the look of subpixels etc. Stick it in a
         | housing with appropriate inputs, have it curved behind a curved
         | glass panel.
        
         | im_down_w_otp wrote:
         | I have one very nice 19" Dell CRT with one of the later stage
         | Sony Trinitron setups (i.e. completely flat screen) that I use
         | with my vintage computer collection (old SGI, Apple, NeXT, etc.
         | systems).
         | 
         | I don't use it often, but I have a moment of terror each time I
         | pull it out to fiddle with something and it takes a moment for
         | the picture to display. So far, thankfully, I've been able to
         | follow that moment of fear with a sigh of relief.
         | 
         | I should probably keep an eye out for a few more decent
         | specimens just to keep in the closet as back ups.
        
       | MalcolmDwyer wrote:
       | "A $200,000 plant..."
       | 
       | Those 1954 dollars comes out to about $2.3 million today. That
       | seems really low for a factory. Could you set up manufacturing
       | for anything for $2 million today? (Besides Etsy shops...)
        
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